There’s probably never been a better time for a new WVRM record. South Carolina’s premium-blend extreme music outfit have always championed the working class, aiming their aggression and bile towards the bloated, redundant corpses in charge. It helps that the mayhem behind the message has consistently been delivered at a devastatingly high level. A run of knockout splits, EPs and full-lengths have drawn WVRM out of the murky topsoil and…
Welcome, once more, to Kvlt Kolvmn. It’s… I mean, the world is the fucking worst right now. If a global pandemic of unprecedented modern proportions wasn’t enough, widespread unemployment, looming global economic catastrophe, and a complete exposition of the failures of the US healthcare system have made March one of…
Listening to black metal can be frustrating in many ways but sometimes, the ways in which it is frustrating can also be very rewarding. For example, the element of obscurity and persona involved in black metal can cause confusion, making otherwise excellent music hard to discover. But on the other…
I’ve spent. a lot time thinking about stoner metal/rock (OK, not a lot of time, but some time, give me a break here). Specifically, I’ve been thinking on what makes me listen to the albums that I do choose to listen to extensively from the genre. After all, the genre…
Howdy headbangers! Josh here, I’m officially taking over Into the Pit while Pete’s off trying to make the world a better place and whatnot. This means two things: a) it’s gonna get a whole lot groovier around here, and b) subheadings! The best quarterly releases from the world of thrash and thrash-adjacent metal will now be coming at you in the tried and true tradition of a “Big Four”. I don’t know why we never thought of this before; is it because, between the two of us, there were always too many picks to whittle down, or because there happened…
For years now Eden and I have attempted different strategies for taking our extensive and passionate community of readers, musicians,…
When did hardcore stop being fun? Not to start this review with a sweeping generalization, but it feels like the…
It’s been said that there’s more to life than music and, while we remain sceptical, we’ve decided to test the premise with our new bi-weekly Cool People Column! Noyan and Eden already bring you great pop culture recommendations and discussions each week on Heavy Pod is Heavy, but why should they get to have all the fun? (Just because they essentially maintain and run the blog itself? I think not!) Now it’s the rest of the staff’s turn to share all the cool things from beyond the world of music that have been tickling their fancy over the last fortnight;…
“21 Days” ‘til I don’t miss you sure takes on a new meaning these days, doesn’t it? That said, Brian…
For those who missed our last installment, We post bi-weekly updates covering what the staff at Heavy Blog have been…
Right, I want to actually open this one by saying: you’re not supposed to have this shit figured out, OK? Self-isolation, social distancing, quarantine, the new economic reality, what comes next; it’s hard to wrap our minds around the fact that this has been going on for only three months. For most of us, the change in life only hit a few weeks ago. You’re not supposed to have it figured out, you’re not supposed to understand this new reality yet, you’re not supposed to have figured out what to do. Most of us haven’t and I say that just…
Editor’s Note: Longtime reader Remi VL is a regular guest contributor to our Release Day Roundup posts! He submitted several of…
If you’ve been even a casual reader of our coverage of modern black metal here at Heavy Blog, you’ll no…
Of all the genres to augment and splice with new varieties, good ol’ heavy metal seems to be the one that escapes the creative mutations most often. It makes sense. If a heavy metal-augmented style becomes “too” anything, that retro flavor seems to fade the fastest. It’s suddenly no longer defined by its “heavy metal-ness,” but instead a litany of other descriptors to more precisely arrange artists and albums. Heavy metal is like a base ingredient, a foundation, and it’s increasingly defined by the absence of other influences. In many ways, there’s even an understood purity test that makes a…
